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> It's curious to me that so much of the focus on COVID vaccines focuses on the antibodies produced immediately after infection and vaccination and so little on
by unanswered 5y ago
> It's curious to me that so much of the focus on COVID vaccines focuses on the antibodies produced immediately after infection and vaccination and so little on the longer-lasting immune responses (memory T and B cells).
Lol it really isn't curious. The vaccines do really well at the first metric, and it can be measured in very short trials (which means smaller trials due to less attrition, and means more trials, etc.) The second metric, they don't do so well at and it's more difficult to measure. It'd be curious if things were any other way.
- LurkingPenguin 5y agoGood science is not about what is easy. That said, even if research involving longer-lasting immune responses is more difficult and costly, which limits how much of it we do compared to simple studies on antibodies, I still find it curious that so many experts seem to be expressing surprise at findings totally congruent with basic knowledge about immunity.
- unanswered 5y agoIt keeps them on the right side of political censors, while allowing them to get the truth out a tiny bit at a time.